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Saturday, July 16, 2016

I wanted to share some of my earlier CoCo sewing progress. I did some bodice fixes (so it would lay flatter) and I'm adding black triangle trim to my early 19th century Regency cross over mustard yellow cotton gown.

The idea and inspiration for the triangle trim comes from here, here and here.
Here is the gown at the START (see how the bodice is a bit 'poufy' in the lower bust area? I wanted to fix that to lay properly over a pair of Regency stays):

Mustard yellow cotton Regency gown

For the trim, I created a channel trim by ironing in two sides (to form a channel), then fold one side down on itself, and then the other, iron down, and then cut off the lower edges with just a bit remaining, and voila, triangle to add! I made each triangle meticulously, and then tuck each into the binding trim (which I hand picked recently). Sew down the binding again to hold in the triangle, and then sew up and down each side of the triangle to finish.

A few in progress pics:

Detail of black triangle trim

Adding triangle to the skirt

I added triangles all the way around the skirt, then to the neckline and the sleeves, and now it's done and ready for CoCo!

Here's a picture of the FINISHED outfit:

Mustard cotton Cross over Regency gown
w/ mustard silk fichu

I'm really looking forward to the second wearing of this dress with my mustard silk fichu at CoCo!